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Old 04-30-2020, 01:24 PM   #25986
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Close. Tocilizumab.

Here's the key: all monoclonal antibodies will end with -mab (Monoclonal AntiBody)

If it is derived from a mouse (murIne) or is a chImera, it will be -imab
If it is derived from a hUman, it will be -umab.
Yep. We just published an article on a novel glycoengineered mAb for MS.

Another drug we work on-- a kinase inhibitor (-inib), not the mAb-- is being tested for treatment of COVID-19 as it has shown some strong properties to calm the cytokine storm/complement activation.
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